HEROES: The Lone Eagle's Final Flight

In a sense it was a stunt, a daredevil
adventure that no man who was concerned about his safety and his future
should have attempted. But Charles Lindbergh's 1927 pioneering solo
flight across the Atlantic in a single-engine plane that cruised at
less than 100 m.p.h.
was surely the most glorious stunt of the centuryone of those
pristinely pure but magnificently eloquent gestures that awaken people
everywhere to life's boundless potential. For most of his life
Lindbergh was looked upon as an argonaut of the air age, a Ulysses from
Minnesota. When he died of cancer of the lymphatic system...